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• For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Peace, Men, Perfect

  Meditations IV.3

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• You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Decision, Upset, Shapes

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.81, Modern Library

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• You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

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  Giving Up, Decision, Abuse

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• The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

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  Memories, Overwhelmed

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Hands, Two

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• Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

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  Men, People, Sake

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1963). “The Meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

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  Hands, Feet, Cooperation

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• Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Goes On, Good Person

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• The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Revenge, Hatred

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• Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Gratitude, Quality, Looks

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.

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  Men, Helping, Help Me

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.40, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• All is as thinking makes it so

  Marcus Aurelius

  Thinking

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.262, Penguin UK

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• Men exist for the sake of one another.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Men, Sake

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.95, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

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  Giving, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.137, Modern Library

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• To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

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  School, Home, Advice

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• Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wall, Hate, Hypocrite

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.67, 德威國際文化

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• All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

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  Decay, Transformation, Thee

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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• Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.40, Everyman's Library

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• Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

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  Life, Future, Stories

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• Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

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  Practice, People, Design

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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• If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

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  Children, Care, Reason

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

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  Science, Men, He Man

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• Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Errors, Deeds

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Character, Perfection

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.7, no.69 (translated by M Staniforth).

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• Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.

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  Opinion

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.126, Sheba Blake Publishing

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